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[Adrian Stoness]

Yes they do buy the new merackie gear idiots
On Nov 22, 2015 12:14 AM, "Eric Christopherson" <echristopherson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015, Dave Wade wrote:
> > Most browsers can be hijacked via DNS or IP address stealing. Thats how
> > much public access wifi works. Any attempt to access any page diverts to
> a
> > login page.
>
> True enough. When I first read Chuck's message I misunderstood and
> thought he meant that IE opened the page even though it was configured
> to open a blank page on startup; but I guess I was just assuming that
> since that's *my* preference for new pages.
>
> My ISP injects into web pages a helpful heads-up message if your account
> is overdue. My work's network always prompts for a login unless you've
> already logged in within some amount of time; I just reported to their
> IT that this redirection doesn't work with any https: URL -- you just
> get a thing saying the page can't be opened. With more pages being https
> now, and major browsers being programmed to automatically try https
> before http, this is a little annoying; unfortunately they told me this
> was a shortcoming of the Cisco stuff they use, and they have no way of
> fixing it.
>
> > On Nov 14, 2015 12:05 AM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/13/2015 09:29 AM, ben wrote:
> > >
> > > Windows new feature ... Auto Click
> > >> Sigh.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Oh, I don't know if that's a new feature.  I recall getting a DSL modem
> > > and getting instructions to bring up Internet Explorer after the
> ethernet
> > > cable had been connected to my computer.
> > >
> > > Well, I don't normally use Windows, but I have a couple of systems
> with XP
> > > installed, so I dragged them out and plugged in the modem.  I brought
> up
> > > IE8 without keying in a URL and viewed the display "Configuring your
> modem"
> > > was the message along with the pretty colors of the modem sender.
> > >
> > > Holy cow!  It didn't even ask if I wanted to point the browser at the
> > > configuration page.  Shades of COFEE.  Does anyone else think that
> this is
> > > a great feature and not a security hole?
> > >
> > > --Chuck
> > >
> > >
>
> --
>         Eric Christopherson
>